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Banned in Boston : the Watch and Ward Society's crusade against books, burlesque, and the social evil /

In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "Banned in Boston."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Neil, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Watch and Ward Society (Boston, Mass.) > History.
Vigilance committees > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Social control > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Corruption > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Censorship > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Sex industry > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Boston (Mass.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Boston (Mass.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Boston (Mass.) > Moral conditions.
Contrôle social > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Corruption > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Industrie pornographique > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Watch and Ward Society (Boston, Mass.)
Censorship
Corruption
Moral conditions
Sex industry
Social control
Social conditions
Vigilance committees
Massachusetts > Boston
Watch and Ward Society
Moral
Zensur
Boston, Mass.
1800-1999
History
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The battle of Brimstone Corner, April 1926
  • Founding fathers, 1878
  • First forays into censorship, 1881-1898
  • Politics, poker, and the "social evil, " 1884-1897
  • Mrs. Glyn and sin, 1903-1909
  • Tough guys and "blue bloods, " 1907-1925
  • New Bedford, 1916
  • The battle of Diamond Hill, 1917-1918
  • Café Society, 1917-1919
  • Corruption fighters, 1913-1924
  • Mencken versus Chase, round 2, 1926
  • Censorship goes wild, 1927-1928
  • Boston, 1929
  • The Dunster Bookshop fiasco, 1929
  • Depression days, 1930-1938
  • This was burlesque, 1931-1953
  • The forties, 1941-1948
  • A kinder, gentler watch and ward, 1948-1967.